Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience

New technologies taste like food, live materials, and scientific processes. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, offering a more inclusive and expansive history of bioart.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A fascinating trend in contemporary art has emerged, where artists are delving into the realm of food, live materials, and scientific processes to explore and challenge the profound impact of manipulating biological materials on our cooking and eating practices. This innovative field of artistic exploration is known as bioart, or biological art. Bioart employs cutting-edge biotech methods to manipulate living systems, ranging from individual tissues to entire ecosystems. While many critiques of bioart focus on the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold and alternative approach.

Bioart Kitchen delves into a diverse range of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a comprehensive and expansive history of bioart. These subjects include home economics, the feminist art of the 1970s, tissue culture methodologies, domestic computing, and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.

By exploring these diverse topics, Bioart Kitchen provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of bioart. It challenges traditional narratives and encourages viewers to reevaluate their understanding of art and science in the 21st century. Through its interdisciplinary approach, bioart offers a platform for artists to explore the boundaries between life and art, question the ethics of scientific manipulation, and challenge the ways in which we perceive and consume food.

In conclusion, bioart is a dynamic and evolving field that pushes the boundaries of artistic expression and scientific inquiry. Through its exploration of food, live materials, and biotechnology, bioart offers a unique perspective on the intersection of life, art, and science. By challenging our assumptions and expanding our horizons, bioart encourages us to reimagine the possibilities of what we can create and consume.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350270947